Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls go down in droves.

With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

I'm a perfectly good carrot that everyone is trying to turn into a rose. As a carrot, I have good color and a nice leafy top. When I'm carved into a rose, I turn brown and wither.

The two most radical things you can do in America are to slow down, and to talk to each other. If you do these things, you will improve your country.

I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you?

we are a small, interconnected world; that we are all safe or none of us are; that we are all well cared for or all at risk.

One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.

Therapy isn't Radio.We don't need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when its quite, surprising things happen.

When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our pain and that of others.

How many therapists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, as long as the lightbulb wants to change.

Grace freely given by God.

whatever you dobe gentle with yourself.you don’t just livein this worldor your homeor your skin.you also livein someone’s eyes.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere - Carl Sagan

But in the end of our love story, We are on the same page.

I always knew I was a dust. But I never knew I was also a universe.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

If you want to do something then be the best.

I think all artists secretly hope their kids might do something safer and straitlaced: maybe my daughter 'll be a banker.

Mistruths are printed as fact, in some cases, and frequently only half of a story will be told.

You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down.